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Private Tutoring, Wealth Constraint and Higher Education
Author(s) -
Chu HsiaoLei
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0106.12122
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , economics , constraint (computer aided design) , inequality , demographic economics , higher education , labour economics , public economics , economic growth , mathematics , mathematical analysis , geometry
We show that when the effectiveness of private tutoring ( PT ) exceeds a PT ‐effectiveness threshold, poor families become disadvantaged in sending their children to college and, thus, inequity arises. At the same time, the average spending on PT of the poor families is smaller than that of the wealthy families. Tax and transfer policies are able to amend the inequity, but student loans for college tuition and more establishments of colleges may have limited effects on reducing inequity.